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Unfortunate implications in Children's Books.

ChagenChagen
edited 2011-09-22 13:43:42 in General
[tɕagɛn]
Right now, in my Creative Writing class, we are in groups. Each group is supposed to get together to write a Children's Book. Now, my teacher wants each of our books to emphasize some kind of theme/life lesson. Okay. But today, a few groups "pitched" their story concepts. While listening to them, I noticed one thing: most of their books teached things that were....not exactly good. Some were just bad. Now, it may have been that I was over-analyzing things, but here are some of their books were pretty much implying if not outright stating: "You'll get everything you want even if you do nothing" "It's good to basically do nothing and benefit off of someone else's contribution without doing any work yourself" "You don't need to do anything to become what you want to be, just laze around and let someone else make you what you want to be without any actual work from you yourself. (This and the above two were all from the same story" "People who are racist towards you will all of a sudden like you for doing one good deed" "If everyone hates you because you have some odd physiological feature, and one person becomes your friend anyway, that somehow makes everything all better" "Imagining a bunch of imaginary friends because you have no friends is clearly not a sign of burgeoning psychosis" "It's bad to be jealous of someone who is a complete and utter Mary Sue, even though most people would be jealous of a person who is OH SO PERFECT (Seriously, their main character was shy, but also had a ton of friends and was popular and everyone liked her and OH MY GOD)" These is not things you should be praising as good. But I'm looking at it really cynically, so....

Comments

  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    Then it's not Children's Books in general, but your class's children's books. Please be more specific next time.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    The problem is, I see these kinds of themes in real Children's books sometimes.
  • MoeDantesMoeDantes
    no longer cuddly, but still Edmond
    Welcome to America, Chagen.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    > Implying that a country is a continent

    >:|
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    On the other hand, I don't know if my group's book was just as bad or not.
  • DYREDYRE

    (This and the above two were all from the same story"

    Considering they were all the exact same thing, only worded three different ways, this really isn't surprising.


    As for the other ones, I feel like you're probably just reading too much into them.

  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    They may mean basically all the same thing, but there are differnces between the three and a story could use one and not the others.

    This one managed to use all three.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    I'm just going to assume Chagen is reading too much into them.
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